Now the Hard Part: Undoing the Mess Wrought by a 16-Day Shutdown

October 21, 2013

After more than two weeks on furlough, Jason Grimes couldn’t wait to get back to his job with the General Services Administration’s Atlanta office last week. But he was also nervous about what he’d find.

“I can only imagine it’s going to be an avalanche of stuff to catch up on and trying to get a sense of how bad the damage is,” Grimes, a sustainability specialist, said in an interview beforehand.